On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Alan McIntyre <alan.mcintyre@gmail.com> wrote:
> Right now there's "if __name__ == '__main__'" boilerplate at the end
> of every test module; nose can find and run tests without that being
> there. I wanted to get the list's take on removing that--it just
> means that if you want to run the tests in one module, you have to do
> "nosetests numpy/blah/test_foo.py" instead of "python
> numpy/blah/test_foo.py". Is there a reason not to remove that
> boilerplate since we've already decided to use nose?
>
When making frequent changes to test_foo.py, it's often nice to run
test_foo.py directly, rather than installing the whole package and
then testing via nose.
I would leave the decision up to the maintainers of the individual
submodules. Personally, I find it useful to have.
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Nathan Bell wnbell@gmail.comhttp://graphics.cs.uiuc.edu/~wnbell/